Word: suburbias
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Marital dry rot in suburbia. A clinging mama and her growing-up boy. An alcoholic advertising salesman in search of himself. These are three of the whitest elephants in the attic of contemporary fiction-and Author Richard Yates, 50, has devoted a tight, pellucid novel to each one. An odd but not inconsiderable literary achievement, particularly in an age so helplessly smitten with the new. Yates' work brands him as a traditionalist in the strictest sense: he is a writer who feels dutybound to tell familiar stories in conventional ways...
...primary, and the Scoop Jackson and George Wallace campaigns are moribund-there will be a lively scrap in the separate competition for 108 delegates. Udall plans to divide most of his remaining time and money between New Jersey and Ohio. He will probably win some delegates in affluent suburbia...
British critics sometimes express surprise that Ayckbourn's provincial comedies (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests) find appreciative audiences in the U.S. Perhaps suburbia is not a locale but a compendium of transferable manners and mores...
FIFTEEN YEARS have seen John Updike create a woodlands mythology out of the manicured green of suburbia, an imitation rather than a statement of what it has been like to be alive in America. Rabbit Run, The Centaur, Rabbit Redux are labors of domestic love, and if sometimes Updike resembles that tranquil genre of English novel, it is out of a modesty as to the possibilities of writing, a concern for the world as it is, and a desire to leave it untrammeled by authorial intrusion...
...single in Danvers's bedroom community, it was particularly difficult. If you want to learn loneliness, try suburbia. And if you want to learn suburbia, try Danvers. A middle-class sprawl of shopping center parking lots, Astroturfed traffic islands, and ranch-style roosts for the not-quite-Ipswich commuter set, Danvers didn't make transition easier...